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Paulie Malignaggi utmanar Conor McGregor: ”Det finns ingen annan match som genererar mer pengar”

Paulie Malignaggi och Conor McGregor boxningsmatch?

Boxaren Paulie Malignaggi har återigen utmanat UFCs forne lättviktsmästare Conor McGregor. Ända sedan det läckte bilder från en sparringmatch mellan McGregor och Malignaggi inför McGregors boxningsmatch mot Floyd Mayweather har Malignaggi uttryckt sitt missnöje ett flertal gånger. Malignaggi har tidigare även utmanat McGregors lagkamrat Artem Lobov.

Den här gången berättar Malignaggi för “Off The Ball” att han inte ser någon annan match McGregor kan ta som möjligen genererar mer pengar.

There’s no other fight he can make that he makes more money than he does fighting me – the problem is, he gets beaten by me. Eddie Hearn can easily put the fight together, Al Haymon can easily put the fight together, Showtime have said they’d be interested in it. I don’t think it’s a no-brainer at this point. I don’t think it’d any secret at this point, there’s money in the fight.

Malignaggi berättar även att han ser sig själv som en solklar vinnare i en eventuell match mot irländaren.

I would love to fight Conor McGregor in a winner-takes-all fight in a boxing match, I would absolutely love it because I would beat him to a pulp, I would hospitalize him and I’d make him go home broke too. In boxing I’d be interested in it. I’d love to do a winner-takes-all fight just so he can go for free but I don’t think he’d ever agree to that.

Malignaggi menar även att McGregor visar tecken på att han håller på att bli desperat då han bland annat har utmanat den japanska kickboxaren Tenshin Nasukawa.

McGregor’s trying all that he can to keep himself relevant as best he can – even going as far as calling out the Japanese featherweight Nasukawa. That guy just did an exhibition with Floyd Mayweather. I don’t think he was intending to fight guys as big as Floyd and Conor, that physically big, he’s a very small guy. It was a one-off situation. Conor’s not the same, he’s not Floyd Mayweather. In truth, he’s trying to look for free money because he knows that his time at the top is coming to an end.

McGregor gick sin senaste match i UFC under UFC 229 då han förlorade mot Khabib Nurmagomedov via submission i 4:e ronden.

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